Non-Scarcity Advancement Economics: Viability, Abundance, Institutional Scarcity, and the Distribution of Technological Progress

Abstract

This paper develops Non-Scarcity Advancement Economics (NAE), a viability-constrainedwelfare framework for economies in which productive capacity, effective access, non-rival goods,durable capital, market power, institutional design, automation, and unequal ownership canmove independently. NAE does not reject standard price theory, welfare economics, industrialorganization, or growth theory. Its proposed contribution is an architecture that connectsproductive capacity to technical sufficiency, effective access, useful service, and distribution-sensitive human advancement. The framework introduces an Institutional Scarcity Wedgeseparating access failure from insufficient sustainable capacity; Durable Service Yield (DSY),which measures persistent useful service relative to scarce-resource burden; and a firm closurein which advancement is maximized subject to a binding financial-viability constraint ratherthan profit being treated as the terminal social objective. Three tractable models generateexplicit divergence conditions: a viability-constrained firm with market power and externalities;a fixed-cost, near-zero-replication-cost abundance sector; and an automation-distribution modelwith heterogeneous capital ownership. The paper states falsifiable propositions, identifiesconditions under which NAE and profit maximization converge, and specifies an empiricalprogram comparing NAE-augmented models against conventional baselines out of sample. Working paper; comments, counterexamples, prior-art identification, mathematical corrections, and replication attempts are invited.